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    Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on
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    Name the Indian industrialist on whose 175th birth anniversary, Union Government launched the commemorative stamp on 6  January, 2015?
    Solution
    • Government of India released a commemorative coin on 6th January, 2015, to mark the 175th birth anniversary of the pioneer of India’s industrialisation and the Founder of the Tata group, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
    • The denominations of the coins were Rupees 100 and Rs 5.
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    Who among the following did Gandhiji regard as his political Guru?
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    Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
        Traveller                                Country from
    1. Marco polo                                Italy
    2. Ibn Battuta                                Morocco
    3. Nikitin                                        Russia
    4. Seydi Ali Reis                            Turkey 
    Select the correct answer using the code given below:
    Solution
    Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and adventurer, who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years.
    Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He was known for his traveling and undertaking excursions called the Rihla.
    Afanasy Nikitin  was a Russian merchant of Tver and one of the first Europeans  to travel to and document his visit to India.
    Seydi Ali Reis, formerly also written Sidi Ali Reis and Sidi Ali Ben Hossein, was an Ottoman admiral and navigator. He was born in Turkey. He commanded the left wing of the Ottoman fleet at the naval Battle of Preveza in 1538.
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    Choose the correct option to complete the statement given.
    A woman Upanishadic thinker was ___________.
    Solution

    Their ideas about the concept of the atman or the individual soul, and the Brahman or the universal soul and ideas about life after the death were recorded in the Upanishads. Upanishads were a part of the later Vedic texts. The Upanishadic thinkers were men especially Brahmins and rajas. But there were exceptions as well like Gargi was a woman thinker.

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    Who among the following Indians did NOT hold the title of Miss World?
    Solution
    Manushi Chillar from India, the damsel from Haryana, has won the coveted Miss World 2017 pageant at a glitzy event in Sanya, China. Chillar is the 6th Indian to become Miss World, following in the footsteps of Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra and Aishwarya Rai. Rieta Fariya in 1966, Aishwarya had bagged the title in 1994, followed by Diana Haydon in 1997, Yukta Mookhey in 1999 and Priyanka in 2000.
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    Who among the following first used the term 'Industrial Revolution' in English to describe the changes that occurred in British industrial development between 1760 and 1820?
    Solution
    The term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840.
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    Who among the following built a model steam engine in 1698 called "Miner's Friend" to drain mines?
    Solution
    Thomas Savery was an English inventor and engineer, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. He invented the first commercially used steam powered device, a steam pump which is often referred to as an "engine". Savery's "engine" was a revolutionary method of pumping water, which solved the problem of mine drainage and made widespread public water supply practical.
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    Pannalal Ghosh played which of the following musical instruments?
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    The award which, the famous writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who passed away recently, did not win
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